Mediterranean from Trieste

El sol beso a Trieste que se encuentra con orientación sur a orillas del Golfo de Venecia con una extensa costa de hermosas playas de la costa del Mar Adriático y una ubicación prácticamente en la frontera de Eslovenia y Croacia. Un mundo de distancia del bullicio de Milán y ofrece una experiencia completamente diferente a Venecia, Trieste es una ciudad única donde se puede realmente conseguir lejos de todo, y experimentar la verdadera cultura italiana. Trieste tiene muchos encantos. Su historia es más importante entre otras cosas, gracias al antiguo papel de la ciudad como el único puerto del Imperio Austro-Húngaro de otro modo sin salida al mar, que albergaba una pequeña flota allí, una flota que, de vez en cuando, navegaría a hacer la guerra contra los Otomanos o los Italianos. Hoy, Trieste es una ciudad fronteriza por excelencia. Los lugares de interés de Trieste incluyen numerosos ejemplos de Art Nouveau y la arquitectura neoclásica de su pasado de Austria, el Centro Internacional de Física Teórica de la Escuela Internacional de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Trieste, y una hermosa costa afuera de la ciudad.

With its seafront cafés and ancient alleyways, shouting stallholders and travellers on the move, bustling, exuberant Split is one of Croatia’s and the Mediterranean’s most compelling cities, it’s easy to see this feeling when you step aground from your MSC cruise.

It has a unique historical heritage too, having grown out of the palace built here by the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 295AD. The palace remains Split’s central ingredient, having been gradually transformed into a warren of houses, tenements, churches and chapels by the various peoples who came to live here after Diocletian’s successors had departed.
Adapted long ago to serve as Split’s town centre, Diocletian’s Palace is certainly not an archaeological “site”. Although set-piece buildings such as Diocletian’s mausoleum (now the cathedral) and the Temple of Jupiter (now a baptistery) still remain, other aspects of the palace have been tinkered with so much by successive generations that it is no longer recognizable as an ancient Roman structure. Best place to start exploring with an MSC excursion the seaward side of the palace is Split’s broad and lively Riva.
Running along the palace’s southern facade, into which shops, cafés and a warren of tiny flats have been built, the Riva is where a large part of the city’s population congregates day and night to meet friends, catch up on gossip or idle away an hour or two in a café. Nearly everything worth seeing in Split is concentrated in the compact Old Town behind the waterfront Riva, made up in part of the various remains and conversions of Diocletian’s Palace itself, and the medieval additions to the west of it. You can walk across this area in about ten minutes, although it would take a lifetime to explore all its nooks and crannies.